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10445: Measuring Global Economic Activity Using Air Pollution

Irene Anne Sophie Ezran, Stephen David Morris, Martin Rama and Daniel Riera-Crichton

10444: Corruption Risks and State Capture in Bulgarian Public Procurement

Mihaly Fazekas, Viktoriia Poltoratskaia and Bence Tóth

10443: Are Vaccination Campaigns Misinformed ? Experimental Evidence from COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Yannick Markhof, Philip Randolph Wollburg and Alberto Zezza

10442: Gendered Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Weather Shocks

Anna Fruttero, Daniel Zefanya Halim, Chiara Broccolini, Bernardo Dantas Pereira Coelho, Horace Mahugnon Akim Gninafon and Noel Muller

10441: The Effects of Communal Violence on Women’s Marital Outcomes

Devaki Ghose and Divya Pandey

10440: The Role of Cash Transfers in Smoothing the Income Shock of COVID-19 in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Romeo Jacky Gansey, Maria Eugenia Genoni and Imane Abdelfattah Ahmed Refaat Helmy

10438: A Review of Human Development and Environmental Outcomes

Diego Ambasz, Anshuman Kamal Gupta and Harry Patrinos

10437: Implications of Using Nonstandard Poverty Lines: An Illustration Using the Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Benoit Marie A Decerf, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Imane Abdelfattah Ahmed Refaat Helmy and Guillermo Federico Sanz

10436: The Effects of Energy Prices on Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from Chile

Juergen Amann and Arti Goswami Grover

10435: The Impact of Tax Blacklisting

Matthew Edward Collin

10434: Labor Market Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions

Mauricio Ulate, Jose Vasquez and Roman David Zarate Vasquez

10433: The Role of Global Value Chains for Worker Tasks and Wage Inequality

Piotr Lewandowski, Karol Madoń and Deborah Elisabeth Winkler

10432: Biodiversity and Finance: A Preliminary Assessment of Physical Risks for the Banking Sector in Emerging Markets

Pietro Calice, Federico Alfonso Diaz Kalan, Nepomuk Max Ferdinand Dunz and Faruk Miguel Liriano

10431: More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Ana Ibáñez, Sandra Viviana Rozo Villarraga and Salvador Traettino

10430: The People’s Voice and Access to Sanitation

John Nana Darko Francois, Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Johnson Kakeu and Christelle Signo Kouame

10429: Poverty Mapping in the Age of Machine Learning

Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Heath Linn Henderson and Sandra Carolina Segovia Juarez

10428: Fiscal Procyclicality in Commodity Exporting Countries: How Much Does It Pour and Why ?

Francisco Arroyo Marioli and Carlos A. Vegh

10427: International Tax Spillovers and Tangible Investment, with Implications for the Global Minimum Tax

Michael Keen, Li Liu and Hayley Pallan

10426: Price Adjustments and Poverty Measurement

Nicola Amendola, Giulia Mancini, Silvia Redaelli and Giovanni Vecchi

10425: Liberian Women Count: Evidence from a Macrosimulation of the Gender Dividend

Mahesh Venkat Karra, Mitja Del Bono, Joshua Kent Wilde, Wendy Cunningham and Sarika Gupta Ringwala

10424: Uncertainty in Preferential Trade Agreements: Impact of AGOA Suspensions on Exports

Habtamu Edjigu, Shushanik Hakobyan and Woubet Kassa

10423: Blackout or Blanked Out ? Monitoring the Quality of Electricity Service in Developing Countries

William Hutchins Seitz, Yuya Kudo and João Pedro Azevedo

10422: The Elusive Link Between FDI and Economic Growth

Agustín Bénétrix, Hayley Pallan and Ugo Panizza

10421: Structural and Behavioral Barriers to Improving Development Outcomes: The Case of Maternal Care in Haiti

Emilie Bernadette Perge, Jimena Llopis Abella and Anna Fruttero

10420: The Longer Students Were Out of School, the Less They Learned

Harry Patrinos

10419: Using Behavioral Science to Increase Women’s Participation in Natural Resource Management in Mexico

Graciela Reyes-Retana, Gonzalo Antonio Pons, Katharina Siegmann, Zeina Afif, Margarita Gomez-Garcia, Pablo Soto-Mota and Carmen Elena Castaneda Farill

10418: Public Primary School Expansion, Gender-Based Crowding Out, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Md. Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad J. Shilpi

10417: Leveraging Social Cohesion for Development Outcomes

Shreya Chatterjee, Marine Gassier and Nikolas Myint

10416: Improving Reading Abilities, Attitudes and Practices during COVID: Results from a Home-Based Intervention of Supplementary Texts for Young Readers in Cambodia

Michael F. Crawford, David Joseph Rutkowski and Leslie Ann Rutkowski

10415: The Effects of Transportation Infrastructure on Deforestation in the Amazon: A General Equilibrium Approach

Juliano Assunção, Rafael Carlquist Rabelo De Araujo and Arthur Amorim Braganca

10414: Fit for (re)purpose ? A New Look at the Spatial Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies

Ebad Ebadi, Jason Daniel Russ and Esha Dilip Zaveri

10413: Improving Enrollment and Learning through Videos and Mobiles: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria

Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera and Ericka G. Rascon Ramirez

10412: Input Subsidies and the Depletion of Natural Capital: Chinese Distant Water Fishing

Aaron Gabriel Ratliffe Englander, Jihua Zhang, Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Qutu Jiang, Mingzhao Hu, Olivier Deschenes and Christopher Costello

10411: Climate Change, Urban Expansion, and Food Production

Felipe Fadullon Dizon, Hina Khan Sherwani and Rui Su

10410: Water Constraints to Agricultural Productivity in Bhutan

Felipe Fadullon Dizon, Muhammad Saad Imtiaz and Jisang Yu

10409: Fiscal Policy Volatility and Growth in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

Francisco Arroyo Marioli, Antonio Fatas and Garima Vasishtha

10408: After Big Droughts Come Big Cities: Does Drought Drive Urbanization?

Vladimir Chlouba, Megha Mukim and Esha Dilip Zaveri

10407: A Framework for the Economic Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions

Thomas David Wilkinson, Mengxiao Wang, Jed Friedman and Marelize Prestidge

10406: Data Transparency and GDP Growth Forecast Errors

Roberta V. Gatti, Daniel Lederman, Asif Islam, Ha Nguyen, Rana Mohamed Amr Mohamed Nabil Lotfi and Mennatallah Emam Mohamed Sayed Mousa

10405: Does Agricultural Intensification Pay ?

Dossou Ghislain Boris Aihounton and Luc Christiaensen

10404: The ABCs of the Role of Public Transport in Women’s Economic Empowerment

Muneeza Mehmood Alam, Lisa Serena Bagnoli and Tamara Kerzhner

10403: Export Survival: The Role of Banks and Stock Markets

Melise Jaud, Madina Kukenova and Martin Strieborny

10402: Global Footprints of U.S. Energy Innovations: Energy Efficiency and the Shale Revolution

Hamza Zahid

10401: Commodity Price Cycles: Commonalities, Heterogeneities, and Drivers

Alain Kabundi and Hamza Zahid

10400: People's Unequal Exposure to Air Pollution: Evidence for the World's Coal-Fired Power Plants

Xinming Du, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Jason Daniel Russ

10399: The Effect of Agricultural Input Subsidies on Productivity: A Meta-Analysis

Linh Nguyen, Jason Daniel Russ and Margaret Maggie Triyana

10398: Distributional and Health Co-Benefits of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms — Evidence from 35 Countries

Christoph Michael Klaiber, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Ira Irina Dorband

10397: Fossil Fuel Prices and Air Pollution: Evidence from a Panel of 133 Countries

Kentaro Florian Mayr and Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler

10396: Why Do People Move ? A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying and Predicting Gender-Specific Aspirations to Migrate

Daniel Zefanya Halim and Suneha Seetahul

10395: Candle in the Wind ? Insights from COVID-19 Emergency Cash Transfers to Informal Sector Workers in Sierra Leone

Samik Adhikari and Suneha Seetahul

10394: Corporate Tax Rates, Allocative Efficiency, and Aggregate Productivity

Marcos Dinerstein and Fausto Andres Patino Pena

10393: The Unintended Consequences of Curfews on Road Safety

World Bank, Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Amy Dolinger, Caitlin Fitzgerald Dolkart, Arianna Legovini, Sveta Milusheva, Robert Andrew Marty and Peter Ngwa Taniform

10392: Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing ? And If So, Why? And What Is Next?

Pinelopi Goldberg and Tristan Reed

10391: Identifying and Monitoring Priority Areas for Methane Emissions Reduction

Susmita Dasgupta, Somik V. Lall and David Wheeler

10390: Introducing E-Procurement in Bangladesh: The Promise of Efficiency and Openness

Jurgen Rene Blum, Arkopal Datta, Mihály Fazekas, Sushmita Samaddar and Ishtiak Siddique

10389: Land Institutions to Address New Challenges in Africa: Implications for the World Bank’s Land Policy

Klaus W. Deininger and Aparajita Goyal

10388: Product Market Monopolies and Labor Market Monopsonies

Massimiliano Calì and Giorgio Presidente

10387: Simulating the Effect of Business Tax Abolition through a New Regional CGE Model: Evidence from Italy

Alessio Baldassarre, Valerio Ferdinando Calà, Danilo Carullo, Hasan Dudu, Elisa Marie Fusco, Pasquale Giacobbe and Carlo Orecchia

10386: Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets

Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Jishnu Das and Amy Dolinger

10385: Land and Mortgage Markets in Ukraine: Pre-War Performance, War Effects, and Implications for Recovery

Klaus W. Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali

10384: Access to Credit and Bank Ownership: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Mario Di Filippo and Ugo Panizza

10383: Is Climate Change Slowing the Urban Escalator out of Poverty ? Evidence from Chile, Colombia, and Indonesia

Shohei Nakamura, Ksenia Abanokova, Hai-Anh Dang, Shinya Takamatsu, Chunchen Pei and Dilou Prospere

10382: Services-Led Growth: Better Prospects after the Pandemic ?

Gaurav Nayyar and Elwyn Adriaan Robin Davies

10381: COVID-19 School Closures, Learning Losses and Intergenerational Mobility

João Pedro Azevedo, Alexandru Cojocaru, Veronica Sonia Montalva Talledo and Ambar Narayan

10380: China as an International Lender of Last Resort

Sebastian Andreas Horn, Bradley Christopher Parks, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch

10379: Coping with Compounding Challenges in Conflict Crises: Evidence from North-east Nigeria

Wolfgang Stojetz and Tilman Brück

10378: Conscientiousness and Labor Market Returns: Evidence from a Field Experiment in West Africa

Mathias Allemand, Martina Kirchberger, Sveta Milusheva, Carol Newman, Brent Roberts and Vincent Thorne

10377: Who Suffers the Most from the Cost-of-Living Crisis ?

Michael Lokshin, Zurab Sajaia and Ivan Torre

10376: Man or Machine ? Environmental Consequences of Wage Driven Mechanization in Indian Agriculture

Arnold Behrer

10375: The Impact of Ethnic Fractionalization on Labor Productivity: Does Firm Size Matter?

Mohammad Amin and Usman Khalid

10374: Trade Promotion Organizations in the Pandemic World

Yewon Choi, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Arti Goswami Grover, Leonardo Iacovone and Marcelo Olarreaga

10373: Welfare and Climate Risks in Coastal Bangladesh: The Impacts of Climatic Extremes on Multidimensional Poverty and the Wider Benefits of Climate Adaptation

Jasper Verschuur, Olivia Rose Elizabeth Becher, Tom Schwantje, Mathijs Van Ledden, Swarna Kazi and Ignacio M. Urrutia Duarte

10372: Institutional Trust, Perceptions of Distributive Unfairness, and Income across Salvadoran Municipalities

Emilio Depetris Chauvin

10371: Offshoring Response to High-Skilled Immigration: A Firm-Level Analysis

Devaki Ghose and Zhiling Wang

10370: Leaning in at Home: Women's Promotions and Intra-household Bargaining in Bangladesh

Hannah Irmela Uckat

10369: Investment in Emerging Market and Developing Economy Regions: Trends, Prospects, and Policy Options

Sergiy Kasyanenko, Philip George Kenworthy, Franz Ruch, Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze, Dana Lauren Vorisek and Collette Mari Wheeler

10368: The Past and Future of Regional Potential Growth: Hopes, Fears, and Realities

Sergiy Kasyanenko, Philip George Kenworthy, Sinem Kilic Celik, Franz Ruch, Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze and Collette Mari Wheeler

10367: The Macroeconomic Implications of a Transition to Zero Net Emissions: A Modeling Framework

Stephane Hallegatte, Florent McIsaac, Hasan Dudu, Charl Jooste, Camilla Knudsen and Hans Anand Beck

10366: Synthesis of the Impacts of Covid-19 on India’s Labor Market: Looking at People, Places and Policies

Yiming Guo, Ambar Narayan, Pedro Olinto, Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Nayantara Sarma

10365: Exciting, Boring, and Nonexistent Skylines: Vertical Building Gaps in Global Perspective

Remi Jedwab and Jason Barr

10364: The Global Investment Slowdown: Challenges and Policies

Kersten Kevin Stamm and Dana Lauren Vorisek

10363: Unlocking SME Finance in Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations

Pietro Calice

10362: The Fragility and Resilience of Nations

Cem Karayalcin and Harun Onder

10361: Toward Environmentally Sustainable Public Institutions: The Green Government IT Index

Michael Lokshin and Eduardo Martin Widmar

10360: How Did Urban Household Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa Fare during COVID-19 ? Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys

Wendy Cunningham, Feraud Tchuisseu, Mariana Viollaz, Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, David Newhouse and Federica Ricaldi

10359: How Well Do Internet-Based Surveys Track Labor Market Indicators in Middle-Income Countries ?

Vidhya Soundararajan, Sidiki Soubeiga, David Newhouse, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Utz Pape and Michael Weber

10358: How Do Borrowers Respond to a Debt Moratorium ? Experimental Evidence from Consumer Loans in India

Stefano Fiorin, Joseph Hall and Martin Kanz

10357: Modeling Transition Paths for the Energy and Transport Sectors: A Literature Review

Maria Vagliasindi

10356: Trade as an Engine of Growth: Sputtering but Fixable

Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge and Lucia Quaglietti

10355: Potential Growth Prospects: Risks, Rewards, and Policies

Sinem Kilic Celik, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge

10354: PRE working paper series: numbers 628 to 668

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10353: PRE working paper series: numbers 667 to 722

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10352: Growth and Transformative Effects of ICT Adoption: A Survey

Estefania Belen Vergara Cobos and Eduardo Malásquez

10351: The Impact of COVID-19 on Mobility and Congestion

Maria Vagliasindi

10350: The Impact of Infrastructure on Development Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis

Vivien Foster, Nisan Gorgulu, Dhruv Jain, Stéphane Straub and Maria Vagliasindi

10349: Can Vaccination Incentives Backfire? Experimental Evidence That Offering Cash Incentives Can Reduce Vaccination Intentions in Some Contexts

William Hutchins Seitz, Eiji Yamada and Satoshi Shimizutani

10348: Improving Estimates of Mean Welfare and Uncertainty in Developing Countries

Joshua David Merfeld and David Newhouse

10347: Behavioral Aspects of Healthy Longevity

Ana Maria Rojas Mendez, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Ellen Elizabeth Moscoe, Julian C Jamison and Carlos Rumiallo Herl

10346: Data Transparency in the Middle East and North Africa

Asif Islam

10345: The Importance of Financial Education for the Effective Use of Formal Financial Services

Saniya Ansar, Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer